Cizre-Bohtan Bey Bedirhan: Years of Resistance and Rebellion

Human history is full of examples of resistance and rebellion that were doomed to defeat just because they contradicted the "spirit of the time", even if they had very justified reasons to become legendary. The resistance and rebellion (1840-1847) of Cizre-Bohtan miri Bedirhan Bey, who came to the stage of history with the struggle against the Ottoman conquest of Kurdistan (1836), is one of them.
This work, based on hundreds of pages of documents that Ahmet Kardam found and unearthed from the Ottoman Archives; The stages of Bedirhan Bey's struggle to establish an autonomous/independent Kurdish federated state, how he established the Kurdish alliance of unprecedented breadth, while he encouraged the resistance and rebellions of his other Kurdish allies, he always kept himself in the background and took care not to sever the diplomatic relations he established with the Ottoman Empire. how he made Cizre-Bohtan a great center of attraction and gave it "state" characteristics, why he committed two Nestorian massacres, which constituted the darkest page of his life, the reasons for his defeat, and how Kurdistan, consisting of a wide variety of ethnic and religious elements, became the result of this defeat. It examines how the possibility of development was destroyed with its own internal dynamics and how the foundations of today's "Kurdish problem" were laid at that time (1847).



Number of Pages: 424

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Footnote

First Print Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 424

Language Turkish